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Vote for Its-Tma-TaineTribal member companygets $19 million subcontractDavid Wolf Jr.forBOT Vice Chairman•Dependable20+ years Employment with CTUIR Fisheries•Traditional Hunter and FishermanTeacher of Dipnet Making•Knowledgeable on Tribal AffairsLand Acquisition Committeee MemberPast Chair for Natural ResourceCommission and Farm Committee•Vietnam Era VeteranSargeant, 2d Bn. 321st FA, 82nd Abn. Div.Paid Political AdRICHLAND, Wash. – Phoenix EnterprisesNW, a company run by CTUIRmember Jonetta Everano, has beenawarded a subcontract valued at about$19 million for cleanup work at the HanfordNuclear Reservation.Washington Closure Hanford, whichmanages the $2.3 billion River CorridorClosure Project for the U.S. Departmentof Energy at the Hanford site, awardedthe subcontract to Phoenix in early October.The subcontract calls for removal anddisposal of two research reactors, a radioactivewaste storage vault and severalbuilding slabs, and clean up of waste sitesin Hanford’s 300 Area. Optional workpotentially could make the subcontractworth up to $24 million.“Our small business has been extremelyfortunate in this current economy andour continued growth is dependent ongood personnel and performing our worksafely and compliant,” Everano said in anemail seeking comment. “This award hasmany technical challenges that our teamlooks forward to, and we are extremelyexcited to continue working safely at theHanford sites.”According to a Washington ClosureHanford news release, removing the reactorsand vault will complete the bulk ofthe heavily radioactive cleanup work inthe 300 Area.Phoenix began work in late Octoberby cleaning up two waste sites near twopreviously demolished buildings inthe 300 Area. The waste sites are at theformer locations used for research anddevelopment work. Phoenix will removean estimated 12,626 tons of contaminatedmaterial from the two locations andtransport it to Hanford’s EnvironmentalRestoration Disposal Facility.Phoenix also will remove more than22,000 tons of contaminated soil fromanother site that received waste fromresearch laboratories. It contains a vaultwith two tanks, which were used fortemporary storage of highly radioactiveliquid waste before it was shipped tothe waste tank farms in central Hanford.The tanks have been emptied and filledwith grout.“At 1,700 tons, the grout-filled containerwill be the heaviest items we havetransported and shipped to ERDF fordisposal,” said Tom Kisenwether, 300Area subcontracts manager for WashingtonClosure.All work under the subcontract is to becompleted by September of 2012.Five teams bid on the work; Phoenixwas the lowest priced bidder. ThePhoenix team also includes Barnhart ofMemphis, Tenn.; Carter EnvironmentalServices of Nampa, Idaho; Cutting EdgeServices Corp. of Batavia, Ohio; LVI EnvironmentalServices of Hayward, Calif.;Meier Enterprises of Kennewick; andMetalFab Inc of West Richland.Celebrating Our EmployeesKARL KETTELHUNT & BEN HARRISARE DUAL RECIPIENTS OF THE NOVEMBEREMPLOYEE OF THE MONTHKARLKETTELHUNTKarl & Ben have taken on aproject that is both technicallychallenging and clientdemanding.For a 4 week period thetwo man team was working50-60 hours each week. Theteam inherited a project thatwas behind scheduled andneeded further definition;Karl negotiated effectivelyuntil the clients expectationswere under control and met.BENHARRISEvery month, CayuseTechnologies acknowledgesan Employee of the Month.The Employee of the Monthreceives his or her name onan Employee of the Monthplaque that is placed in theentrance hallway, a CayuseTechnologies Polo shirt, anda personal parking space locatedin the visitor parking lot.30 Confederated Umatilla JournalNovember 2011
CUJ EnvironmentLamprey climbing ladder at Three-Mile FallsBy the CUJUMATILLA - It may not seem like alot, but the return of 138 lamprey to aspecially designed ladder on the lowerUmatilla River, an Eastern Oregon tributaryof the Columbia River, has surprisedfisheries experts who expected a smallerreturn to take much longer.“We’re trying to figure out why wehave so many more in the Umatilla,” saidAaron Jackson, lamprey project leader forthe Confederated Tribes of the UmatillaIndian Reservation, the tribe leading aneffort to restore the prehistoric fish.Meanwhile, the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService on Oct., 13 released its PacificLamprey Assessment and Template forConservation Measures, the first phaseof a broader initiative to conserve andrestore the species throughout its range.Additionally, the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers has established a Juvenile LarvalLamprey Work Group that will workto determine appropriate methods formonitoring passage at Columbia Riverdams. Those methods could include taggingoutmigrant juvenile lamprey as 4-5year olds in their 11-year lifecycle, andthen following their migration through‘Lamprey predate dinosaurs. These crittersare really old and it bothers me to think that inmy lifetime they could potentially go extinct.’hydro-projects as 5-7-inch juveniles.Once juvenile passage patterns arelearned, the US Army Corps can workto provide protection for this ecologicallyimportant species in decline.Also, a Tribal Lamprey ManagementPlan is going through final editing beforeit will be released by CRITFC (ColumbiaRiver Inter-Tribal Fish Commission)probably later this year.“It’s calling for serious attention,”Jackson said. “The funding gates need tostart opening so we can learn more aboutlamprey. At one time there were probablyseveral million in the Columbia Basinand it’s not unfathomable that we couldhave as many as 20,000 or more returningannually in the Umatilla River. But,currently the populations are depressedAaron Jackson, CTUIR Lamprey Project Leaderand we’re struggling to figure out whythat is.”Jackson said restoring lamprey inthe Columbia River Basin will requirepassage improvements for migratingjuveniles and adults. Juveniles have anoption of using a screened salmon bypasssystem, where they often are impingedin the screen mesh, through “strikeand shear” turbines, or over spillways.Understanding which of these routes isconsidered safe for outmigrating juvenilelampreys is critical to their survival.Adult passage is of equal importance,providing passage routes that are safeand that speed up migration throughthese project is critical.“We’re trying to figure out the bestroute,” Jackson said, “But, we need anactive tag that can be used to monitor passage,and development is taking time”.This year, again for an unknown reason,the number of adult lamprey returningto the Columbia River from the PacificOcean is higher than in recent years. Thisyear’s run of an estimated 50,000 lampreywas twice the number that passed overBonneville Dam last year. However, incomparison, the run was estimated at200,000 adults over Bonneville Dam in2003.Those numbers are estimates, Jacksonsaid, because lamprey counting occurs24 hours a day at Bonneville and only16 hours a day at other projects, whichmisses the critical night time passageperiod.“We want 24 hour counts at all projects,”Jackson said. “The four tribes (ColumbiaRiver treaty-fishing tribes) haveasked the Corps to fund CRITFC (whichrepresents the four treaty fishing tribes)and the Washington Fish and WildlifeDepartment that oversees the countingat US Army Corp projects.”Regardless of the total numbers, therun is reduced dramatically before itSee Lamprey at Three-Mile, Page 50Protesters ride in SD against proposed pipelineBy DIRK LAMMERS, Associated PressSIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Opponents of aproposed oil pipeline from Canada to theTexas Gulf Coast rode horses and bicyclesand walked Oct. 27 along a route from thePine Ridge Indian Reservation towardthe Rosebud Reservation in southernSouth Dakota.The protesters included tribal elders,ranchers and actress Daryl Hannah,who was arrested last summer outsidethe White House in a protest againstTransCanada’s proposed Keystone XLpipeline.The 1,700-mile underground pipeline,which would travel through Montana,South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas andOklahoma, ending up on Texas’s GulfCoast, would carry an estimated 700,000barrels of oil a day, doubling the capacityof an existing pipeline from Canada.Hannah, speaking by telephone afterthe short ride, said the pipeline threatensto contaminate the Ogallala Aquifer, amassive water supply in South Dakotaand seven other states, and would furtherincrease the nation’s dependence on oil.``This pipeline will only shackle us to afuture of being absolutely dependent onthis dirtiest of fossil fuels,’’ she told TheAssociated Press.President Barack Obama said Oct.19 that his administration has made nodecision on whether TransCanada Corp,the Calgary-based company building thepipeline, can move ahead with its plans.A message left with a TransCanadaspokesman was not immediately returned.The company in October offered newsafeguards it said would limit the effectof a potential spill, but company executivesmaintained they cannot move theproposed route at this point in the federalpermitting process.Supporters say the $7 billion projectcould significantly reduce U.S. dependenceon Middle Eastern oil, while opponentssay it would bring ``dirty oil’’See Pipeline protest, Page 41Paid Political AdNovember 2011Confederated Umatilla Journal31
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